More Unintended Consequences

When the Right Wing/Conservative majority US Supreme Court, struck down a nationwide right to abortion in 2022, by overturning Roe v Wade, the law which had guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion up to the point of foetal viability (about 23-25 weeks), it was only a matter of time before some US states would go further in their local laws.

Women's Rights, Are Human Rights

So the news, that in Alabama, the state Supreme Court has now ruled that frozen embryos are considered to be 'children' and that a person could now be held to be legally liable, for accidentally destroying them, should not be a real surprise to anyone .... after all that's been the direction of travel all along.

More Unintended Consequences

Thirty per cent of the global export market of wheat in 2020 was by Russia and the Ukraine ...

Wheat Suppliers And Consumers

 

... These markets were obviously going to be disrupted by both the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and the Western sanctions.